His legitimacy would be shakier than ever before, and he would not be able to consolidate his power again.
Love may be stretching the definition, as the marriage with Gibbs would appear to be shaky to say the least.
Their confidence would probably be shakier — and their bids lower — if that band had not been blessed last week by the more than 150 countries represented at the World Radiocommunication Conference, which meets every four to five years to evaluate global rules on how best to manage the airwaves.
The Spaniards would have gone on from Galway by now, the memories of people who had maybe noticed the Ford Cortina would be getting shaky.
But if the patient received anything short of what I have described, I should think that Mr. Levy would be on shaky ground in asking for absolution.
Fed officials have acknowledged that they warned Mr. Lewis that he would be on shaky legal ground if he tried to back out of the deal by invoking a "material adverse change" clause.
Disclaimers to the contrary — "Without our traditions, our lives would be as shaky as... as a fiddler on the roof," Tevye says — the fiddler represents the emotional cement that binds and defines the tribe.
Analysts said that the best-case scenario would be a shaky coalition government, which would once again expose Italy and the euro zone to turmoil if markets question its commitment to measures that have kept the budget deficit within a tolerable 3 percent of gross domestic product.
Indeed, if the president attempts to revoke or downsize a monument designation, such actions would be on shaky, if any, legal ground.
Even after a "no" vote, the union, which goes back to 1707, would be looking shakier than ever.
